Thursday, November 10, 2011

Walk, Don't Run (1964)

I am neither a brain scientist or a rocket surgeon, but my guess is that Cary Grant was never a fan of the hit song by Vanessa Williams titled "Save the Best for Last". Walk Don't Run was Grant's last film. He retired relativley young for an actor - at the age of 60 and he lived the last 22 years of his life in "retirement".

There are some bright spots of the film- there is an innocence about it that is enjoyable. We just don't make movies like this one anymore. It may be cute but it is simply just a bad movie. 1.5 stars at best. Definatley not one that Grant would want to end on.

It was the first Samantha Eggar and Jim Hutton movie for me- and I liked both of them. Hutton, according to IMDB, was supposed to be the next Jimmy Stewart. The problem with that is Stewart lived to be 150 and made 123 movies. Hutton died young of cancer at the age of 45. He didn't even live long enough to see his 20 year old son Timohty Hutton win an oscar in the Robert Redford movie "Ordinary People". Timothy Hutton still hold the record for the youngest person to win an oscar- according to IMDB.

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